[WikiEN-l] Our Pokémon gallery

[Ray Saintonge]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
>
>>> Oh, it is, but it's the reason they want to link to us which is
>>> worrying. We should *not* be a collection of movie posters or album
>>> covers.
>>>
>>
>> Look at this yummie gallery of 200 copyrighted images:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pok%C3%A9mon_images
>>
>> Especially yummy, if you wanted to prosecute Wikipedia, is the fact that
>> the same entity holds the copyright on all of them. Also interesting is
>> that the gallery makes no note of this. It contains no critical 
>> commentary
>> on the images in question and has no claim to be fair use - nor does it
>> assert that it is. It's just a web gallery of pretty little copyrighted
>> images used without permission of the copyright holder - about as 
>> blatant
>> a copyright violation as we could arrange if we tried.
>>
> If it's such an awful violation, then why not send a letter to
> Nintendo and/or Pokemon USA informing them of this nefarious
> activity going on right under their noses?
>
> We're all sitting around trading guesses on this sort of thing,
> but an actual note from the copyright holder could put an
> immediate end to the back-and-forth, plus it can be quoted to
> any future uploaders, plus it can be used in speedy deletion
> criteria.
>
> It's such a simple solution, I'm a little surprised that fair-use
> opponents haven't tried this already. (Of course, if the copyright
> holder officially shrugs about WP usage, or defines what they
> consider reasonable limits, that would make it harder to argue
> that fair use is always unacceptable, so there's a little risk.) 

If they are really concerned they probably would have sent out a take 
down order long ago.  Perhaps the person who sends Nintendo a note 
should send them the note privately rather than as a Wikipedian.  In his 
note he could complain about how the evil people at Wikipedia are 
flagrantly violating Nintendo's rights, and he wants to warn them of 
this grave injustice.  It would be interesting to see how they respond 
to that. :-)

Ec